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> you or someone you're paying very well on your team holds an Associate-level certification at the very minimum". It's easy to get in over your head over there. I will never forget the story about the expert Amazon engineer that lost 80K USD.
Sounds like an interesting read. Link please.
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#112At this point AWS has gotten so complex that one has to jump through a dozen hoops to get the simplest of things done. To scale up our reporting I thought it’s a good idea to offload report generation to a lambda function. Read from MySQL, dump into S3 and mail a link to that S3 file, make the link expire after couple of hours. Reasonably simple enough. But by God was it painful!! IAM is a rabbit hole, now later VPC…
Sometimes I wonder if the old world where you had to buy computers and drive to the datacenter at 3 in the morning to replace dead hard drives was really so bad. I guess it was really so bad. Everything you have to build for yourself in the cloud is something you probably needed in your self-hosted stack -- a directory of users, permissions (and escalation), firewall rules, SSH key material, etc. I feel like no matte…
>they give you the tools to build solutions, not solutions.
Hmmm, well the first generation of a cloud providers offerings has to be the bare necessities (EC2, VPC, IAM RDS etc). Then you can start providing a second gen of services that use the first gen, like AWS's ECS, and then a third gen like Fargate.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes I wonder if the old world where you had to buy computers and drive to the datacenter at 3 in the morning to replace dead hard drives was really so bad. I guess it was really so bad. Everything you have to build for yourself in the cloud is something you probably needed in your self-hosted stack -- a directory of users, permissions (and escalation), firewall rules, SSH key material, etc. I feel like no matte…
im working as a devops for a security conscious on-prem startup and .. oh boy it IS really so bad
subtly provide management with a copy of the phoenix project
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#114These cards are too long: https://docs.ankiweb.net/editing.html#:~:text=keep%20it%20si....
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#115Please explain how this thing works. Thanks.
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#116At this point AWS has gotten so complex that one has to jump through a dozen hoops to get the simplest of things done. To scale up our reporting I thought it’s a good idea to offload report generation to a lambda function. Read from MySQL, dump into S3 and mail a link to that S3 file, make the link expire after couple of hours. Reasonably simple enough. But by God was it painful!! IAM is a rabbit hole, now later VPC…
I totally agree with you. A part of my duties is setting up logging from AWS to Splunk and there's so many gotchas and stumbling blocks that's it's infuriating to even attempt and follow best practices.
A great example is Cloudtrail. The best practice is to send your OrgTrail (an org-wide Cloudtrail) to a separate account for security reasons. Cool. Okay, sounds easy enough. The Splunk docs are useless for AWS, so consulting with YouTube, Reddit, etc is the go-to for this.
It's so much easier to just leave the OrgTrail logging into the management account it's not even funny.
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#117At this point AWS has gotten so complex that one has to jump through a dozen hoops to get the simplest of things done. To scale up our reporting I thought it’s a good idea to offload report generation to a lambda function. Read from MySQL, dump into S3 and mail a link to that S3 file, make the link expire after couple of hours. Reasonably simple enough. But by God was it painful!! IAM is a rabbit hole, now later VPC…
I think avoiding the console, getting a solid understanding of IAM and cloudformation are a good basis to build on. AWS can definitely be poorly documented and buggy at times.
It can be if you haven't tried any other of the big cloud vendors. In my experience, it's one of the best documented services I have ever used, especially considering it's so vast.
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#118This is terrific, thank you! Have you considered offering the cards as an Anki deck?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XQ9Ejk2jePCmWU3vzt0w... Import allowing HTML tags. Will need a little formatting of the card template for the tags. PS: Hey Dotan! Been a while, hope you're well
Hello David! When I posted it had been a while, but I just replied to you on that-forum-not-to-be-named about an Ankidroid issue. The internet sure is making the world smaller.
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second this, terraform is a game changer if you are using aws (or any of the other clouds, it supports multiple backends)
And if you plan to use Terraform, you might as well skip that step and go directly to Pulumi.
Hey, hadn't that a look before, thanks!
Yes, Terraform/HCL can sometimes feel like the instructions for the holy hand grenade.
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#120Well done! Thanks for those who needs to pass AWS Certs. But on another side after checking few flashcards it seems you will turn into an AWS Marketing Parrot, more than really learning skills (Eg: question about AWS Shield)
The lower level certs are easier to pass, and you might end up sounding like an AWS Marketing Parrot.
The higher level certs are the real deal. You will work your ass off to get them, and I don’t think flash cards will help much. But there are sites out there that help you train for the test, and they can also give you sample tests to work from. If you can pass a number of those sample tests with good scores, then you’ll probably do okay on the real tests.
Acloud.guru is used internally with Amazon (and is free for anyone who has an @amazon.com e-mail address), but it’s not the only option out there. John Bonzo has some of the highest regarded AWS training videos in the AWS Training community, and Amazon SDEs have recommended to me the freecodecamp.org videos as well.